OPEN LETTER to the National Assembly of Republika Srpska regarding the Discussion on the Information and Recommendations of the Study on the Position of Serb Women Victims of Wartime Sexualized Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published May 4, 2015

AuthorNela Porobić Isaković

On April 24th the Women Organizing for Change initiated an open letter to the National Assembly of Republika Srpska provoked by the discussion on the Information and Recommendations of the Study on the Position of Serb Women Victims of Wartime Sexualized Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We thank all of you who signed the letter recognising the importance of acting on time when it comes to discriminatory approaches towards victims of wartime rape and other forms of sexualised violence.

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Since 2013 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is facilitating a ground-breaking initiative that focuses on the importance of taking into consideration existing experiences and empirical knowledge of women who went through an armed conflict and struggled for women rights, in an attempt to change the dominant narrative of women as victims. Through this initiative we advocate for women’s rights to be represented at all levels in the peace-building process, we put the spot light on the peace activism of women during war, we defend the human rights of women and promote social, economic and political justice.